Lol Jure nice to see the person I totally confused with my thoughts on this years ago join in :-) And of course you're right. All the best to you and yours, hope you have a good one.
The OP suggested his stats at a particular distance made him better at the range than some of the best players, although Sam suggested that was as he'd had more practice at that distance, the plain and obvious fact is it just isn't true.
I said:.
The number given is reflecting how many of your holed putts have been from that distance, not how many of your putts from that distance you have holed. If you could compare the latter all of the named players would have a higher percentage than you.
Which is the truth of it, even if it's not an explanation that's clear to others.
I've now realised the easiest way to show this would be to look at someone that hasn't played much.
This is someone who has only played one round.
They had 46 putts with stats at 0% except for 0-5ft and 5ft-10ft.
% putts made 0-5ft 26.09% and % putts made 5ft-10ft 13.04%
I think only successful putts count and others think only first putts count, both would result in the %'s being from 18.
12 from 46 is 26.09% and 6 is 13.04%.
So whatever wgt are counting he made 12 putts from 0-5ft and 6 from 5ft-10ft.
The one putt % is 11.11 so now we know 2 first putts were made, I think that rules out first putts being what is counted with the immediately apparent reason being there couldn't be two different %'s above. (as if the two putts were holed at different distances the %'s would be the same)
So in fact it's only the last or successful putts that count. What is missing, although they are included when working out the %'s so that they don't total100% as seen, are unsuccessful putts: (missed putts 28 = 61%).
We don't know what distance the missed putts were from, so we don't know anyone's putting % from any particular distance. Which is back to the start, we know what % of successful putts were holed from each different distance but we don't what % of putts from each distance we've holed.
Incidentally I'd say the fact most people are in the 40's% for 0-5ft will be as the better players hole a lot of the longer (probably mainly 5-10ft but others too) , so have less second putts in the shorter range, balanced by the fact(s) they miss less when they do have them, and hit the approach that close more often.
Sorry if there's a detail or two wrong in this but iif there is it wont change the overall picture.
ps can anyone tell me why the central part of my screen has gone small (in this only) making the writing hard to read.